personally
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English personally, personely, personallich, personaliche, equivalent to personal + -ly.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.li/, /ˈpɜːs.nə.li/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɝ.sə.nə.li/, /ˈpɝs.nə.li/
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Adverb edit
personally (comparative more personally, superlative most personally)
- In a personal manner.
- In person.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
- 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 84:
- 'There's a boy here who wants to speak to Miss Clara personally,' he announced.
- Concerning oneself.
- I'm really annoyed with her, personally.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- Personally I felt shy and uncomfortable at this obsequious adoration, and I read the same feeling in the faces of Roxton and Summerlee, but Challenger expanded like a flower in the sun.
- As a person.
- I like you personally, but as a colleague you have yet to do well.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
in a personal manner
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in person
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concerning oneself
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